Hospital rankings
Hospitals in Utah with the lowest COPD death rate
9 Utah hospitals ranked by COPD death rate in the 2026 Medicare (CMS) data. Leading: Intermountain Medical Center, Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan Valley, University Of Utah Hospital And Clinics. Filter by type, ownership and size, choose the measures you care about, and sort by any column.
| # | Hospital | COPD death ratelower is better | Overall star ratinghigher is better | Patient survey star ratinghigher is better | Heart attack death ratelower is better | Heart failure death ratelower is better | Hospital-wide readmission ratelower is better · 2025 data | Serious complicationslower is better | Time in emergency departmentlower is better | Medicare spending per patientlower is better | Total beds | Compare |
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| National average | 8.6% | 3.3 | 11.9% | 11.1% | 15.0% | 1.00 | 162 min | 1.00 | ||||
| 1 | Intermountain Medical Center | 7.7%, 72nd percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 9.0%, 100th percentile | 10.9%, 52nd percentile | 13.1%, 99th percentile | 0.86, 83rd percentile | 218 min, 12th percentile | 0.97, 61st percentile | 520 | Compare Intermountain Medical Center |
| 2 | Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan Valley | 8.1%, 61st percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 2, 10th percentile | 11.2%, 71st percentile | 12.1%, 28th percentile | 14.6%, 74th percentile | 0.86, 83rd percentile | 160 min, 42nd percentile | 0.99, 50th percentile | 172 | Compare Holy Cross Hospital-Jordan Valley |
| 3 | University Of Utah Hospital And Clinics | 8.3%, 54th percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 12.0%, 42nd percentile | 9.1%, 85th percentile | 14.7%, 68th percentile | 0.91, 70th percentile | 234 min, 8th percentile | 1.00, 44th percentile | 1,013 | Compare University Of Utah Hospital And Clinics |
| 4 | St. George Regional Hospital | 8.4%, 52nd percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 10.4%, 90th percentile | 11.5%, 39th percentile | 13.5%, 98th percentile | 0.81, 92nd percentile | 147 min, 51st percentile | 0.94, 76th percentile | 334 | Compare St. George Regional Hospital |
| 5 | St Mark's Hospital | 8.7%, 43rd percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 3, 39th percentile | 10.2%, 93rd percentile | 11.0%, 50th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | 0.88, 78th percentile | 109 min, 83rd percentile | 1.04, 23rd percentile | 294 | Compare St Mark's Hospital |
| 6 | Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital | 8.9%, 38th percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 10.3%, 92nd percentile | 12.3%, 25th percentile | 13.3%, 99th percentile | 0.77, 95th percentile | 178 min, 31st percentile | 0.98, 55th percentile | 395 | Compare Intermountain Health Utah Valley Hospital |
| 7 | VA Salt Lake City Healthcare - George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center | 9.0%, 36th percentile | 4, 73rd percentile | 5, 97th percentile | 9.6%, 98th percentile | 7.6%, 96th percentile | 14.0%, 93rd percentile | 0.94, 59th percentile | — | — | 578 | Compare VA Salt Lake City Healthcare - George E. Wahlen VA Medical Center |
| T8 | Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 5, 94th percentile | 4, 76th percentile | 10.7%, 85th percentile | 14.2%, 7th percentile | 13.5%, 98th percentile | 0.79, 94th percentile | 185 min, 27th percentile | 0.96, 66th percentile | 321 | Compare Intermountain Health McKay-Dee Hospital |
| T8 | Uintah Basin Medical Center | 9.7%, 20th percentile | 2, 17th percentile | 3, 39th percentile | — | 14.0%, 8th percentile | 14.4%, 83rd percentile | 0.98, 41st percentile | 136 min, 60th percentile | 0.86, 94th percentile | 49 | Compare Uintah Basin Medical Center |
About these rankings
Rankings use the 2026 release of CMS Care Compare data. Hospitals share a rank (“T”) when their values are equal, and only hospitals with a reported value for the sorted measure are ranked. Shading compares each value with every hospital in the country, so it doesn’t change with your filters. Small differences are often not statistically meaningful; use the methodology and glossary for context.
- COPD death rate
- 30-day death rate for COPD patients.
- Overall star rating
- CMS overall hospital quality star rating (1-5).
- Patient survey star rating
- HCAHPS summary star rating (1-5).
- Heart attack death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart attack patients.
- Heart failure death rate
- 30-day death rate for heart failure patients.
- Hospital-wide readmission rate
- Rate of unplanned readmission within 30 days, all conditions. From 2025 CMS reports the Hybrid Hospital-Wide Readmission measure (claims plus EHR data), which replaced the claims-only measure; values are close but not strictly comparable across the change. CMS suppressed it for 2026.. Latest available: 2025 release.
- Serious complications
- Patient safety and adverse events composite (PSI 90; 1.0 = national value).
- Time in emergency department
- Median time patients spent in the emergency department before leaving.
- Medicare spending per patient
- Medicare spending per beneficiary episode relative to the national median (1.0 = national median).
- Total beds
- Total beds reported to CMS (Provider of Services file).